Engineering Project Manager

Sandis; Modesto (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Year-end bonus

401k

Medical, Vision, Dental

FSA

Paid time off

Education reimbursement

Professional dues

Job summary

Sandis in Modesto, CA seeks an experienced Project Manager to lead civil land development projects. You will oversee a design team, manage scopes, budgets, and schedules, and ensure documentation quality. A PE license and strong CAD skills are highly valued.

The role emphasizes client relationship management, meeting coordination, and producing engineering reports. You will guide grading, stormwater, and utility plan development while maintaining project quality and timelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering.
• 8+ years of Civil Engineering/Land Development experience.
• 5+ years as a Project Manager.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license; AutoCAD Civil 3D proficiency preferred.

Responsibilities

• Plan, organize, direct, and control project team activities including scopes, budgets, and schedules.
• Coordinate with project members; attend/run meetings and maintain project documentation.
• Oversee production of plans, specifications, and estimate packages.
• Prepare and oversee technical engineering reports.
• Prepare forms and agreements needed for project approval.
• Ensure quality control measures are implemented.
• Develop improvement plans including grading, stormwater management and utility plans.
• Compute grades, earthwork quantities and material estimates.
• Maintain client relationships and pursue new project opportunities.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Client relationships

Communication

Education

Bachelor's in Civil Engineering

Tools

AutoCAD Civil 3D

Job description

About this position

Sandis is currently looking for a Project Manager to join our growing team in Modesto, CA. Our project managers oversee and supervise a design team of up to six individuals. If you have a strong technical background in land development, we think you will love it here!

Why you will love it here:

• Professional development, training, and mentorship
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Amazing teams of supportive and hard-working professionals

Cool Stuff you get to do:

• Be responsible for planning, organizing, directing, and controlling project team activities, including but not limited to reviewing and/or supervising technical aspects of work as well as defining and overseeing project scopes, budgets and schedules
• Coordinate with all project members, attending/running meetings and assuring that all project documentation is maintained
• Oversee the production of plan, specification and estimate packages
• Prepare and oversee the production of various reports including technical engineering reports.
• Prepare various forms and agreements needed for project approval
• Ensure appropriate quality control measures have been implemented
• Prepare improvement plans including rough/precise grading, Stormwater management and utility plans
• Computation of grades, earthwork quantities, and materials estimates
• Maintain ongoing client relationships, pursue new professional connections, and seek new project opportunities with new and current clients.

What will help you be successful:

• Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering
• 8+ years of recent experience in the Civil Engineering Industry (Land Development Design) and 5+ years as a Project Manager
• Professional Engineer License
• Excellent understanding of precise grading, utility plans, drainage, and stormwater management.
• Strong understanding of codes and can spot issues with code compliance in design.
• Must be detail-oriented with strong organizational and time management skills
• AutoCAD Civil 3D proficiency preferred

A little about Sandis Benefits:

• Competitive salaries, end-of-year bonuses, and 401k
• Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance including life and long-term disability
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for health care, parking and transit, and dependent care expenses
• 24 days of paid time off starting at 16 days PTO, 8 paid Holidays
• Education reimbursement and professional license program, Paid annual dues for professional and societal organizations

Sandis is a professional services corporation specializing in civil engineering (Land Development Design), traffic engineering, land surveying, and planning, but we are much more than the services we offer. Sandis is about reliability, experience, and expertise. For over 60 years, we have been committed to innovation, excellence, leadership, and environmental stewardship. Our job and passion are to provide the foundation for the future to be built upon, always improving the communities where we live, work, and play. We service private and public clients in the high-tech, research and redevelopment, laboratory, corporate, commercial, residential, healthcare, academic, hospitality, civic, justice, and public works sectors. We are a team of experts who care about the people we work with and for.

Sandis is an Equal Opportunity Employer.